Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It’s just IT. Some women will stay in a man’s memory if they once walked down a street.
RUDYARD KIPLINGTis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It’s just IT. Some women will stay in a man’s memory if they once walked down a street.
RUDYARD KIPLINGPolitics are not my concern. They impressed me as a dog’s life without a dog’s decencies.
RUDYARD KIPLINGPoliticians. Little Tiny Gods on Wheels.
RUDYARD KIPLINGIf you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.
RUDYARD KIPLINGThe individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
RUDYARD KIPLINGI worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.
RUDYARD KIPLINGTake everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
RUDYARD KIPLINGThere is no sin greater than ignorance.
RUDYARD KIPLINGLiterature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
RUDYARD KIPLINGBeware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.
RUDYARD KIPLINGIf you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.
RUDYARD KIPLINGKeep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
RUDYARD KIPLINGA woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
RUDYARD KIPLINGWhat is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.
RUDYARD KIPLINGThe world is very lovely, and it’s very horrible–and it doesn’t care about your life or mine or anything else.
RUDYARD KIPLINGWe are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.
RUDYARD KIPLING